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Defoe, Daniel: Tombstone

Daniel Defoe's original tombstone is now on display in Stoke Newington Library, but for 60 years it stood in the front garden of 56 Portswood Road. This was the original tombstone placed on Defoe's grave in Bunhill Fields Cemetery, Finsbury in 1731. It was replaced in 1870 by an obelisk designed by Samuel Horner, stonemason of Bournemouth. Horner took the original tombstone back to Bournemouth and it eventually found its way to Portswood. It was returned to Stoke Newington in 1945.